BOTL - NBA Writer, Vancouver (WA) Columbian coming up

Get your stuff ready if you want to cover the Trail Blazers and be on the lookout for an official posting.
An old bud of mine is leaving this paper so he and his wife, who recently had their first child, can get back east closer to family.
They're going to fill, and post soon. There will be a short window, like two weeks, where they will accept stuff.
So be ready.

What kind of background would you typically need for a gig like this??? I know they often look for someone with pro beat experience ... but hell .. everyone who covers a pro beat was new to it at some point.

What kind of background would you typically need for a gig like this??? I know they often look for someone with pro beat experience ... but hell .. everyone who covers a pro beat was new to it at some point.

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The pool of candidates will dictate this more than anything. It'd be nice to think they'll hand it off to a promising badass looking to crack into the pros full-time, but lets be real. How many ex-pro writers are diluting that pool right now? Not a good time to try and move up the ladder, as it were. Either hope somebody fortuitously yanks your clip file out of the pile and is immediately in love or you were already at the top of the heap. I'll bank on the former because I'll be sending my materials via candygram, but not everybody will be so lucky.

Not saying that they wouldn't go with an ex-pro beat writer, but the promising badass absolutely stands a shot there. Financial issues aside, this is a nice gig. The Jail Blazers are no more. You now have a good, young team that knows how to behave. No more Rasheed. No more Bonzi. No more pitbull fights. Seems like a good time to be covering them.